September 14, 2020 — Chantilly, VA — AMERICAN SYSTEMS today announced the promotion of Sheri Murphy to the newly-created position of Vice President, Quality Assurance and Continuous Improvement (VP, QA/CI). Murphy will be responsible for advising company leadership on the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of processes, programs, and initiatives focused on program management and corporate business standards, quality assurance, and risk management associated with running the business and serving customers.
AMERICAN SYSTEMS Selected for James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award
August 5, 2020 — Chantilly, VA — AMERICAN SYSTEMS’ Albuquerque, NM, facility was honored recently with the prestigious 2020 James S. Cogswell Award for security excellence. The award, presented by the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA), focuses on principles of industrial security excellence, including establishing and maintaining a security program that far exceeds the basic National Industrial Security Program requirements; and providing leadership to other cleared facilities in establishing best practices while maintaining the highest standards for security. The company’s Albuquerque facility was one of 61 chosen from approximately 12,500 cleared facilities.
AMERICAN SYSTEMS Celebrates 45 Years as a Leading Government IT and Engineering Solutions Provider
2020 also marks 30th year as an employee-owned company
March 2, 2020 — Chantilly, VA — AMERICAN SYSTEMS, a government IT and engineering solutions provider and one of the top 100 employee-owned companies in the U.S., is marking the 45th anniversary of its founding this year. The company plans to celebrate the occasion with a company-wide video teleconference celebration on Thursday, March 5, in honor of company founder H. Thomas "Tom" Curran’s birthday. Curran, who passed away in 2014, founded AMERICAN SYSTEMS (formerly American Communications Corporation) in 1975 with a focus on providing technicians to telecommunications firms. In 1976, Curran joined forces with Forrest “Woody” Ramsey, and the company's initial focus was expanded to include systems engineering for U.S. submarines.
Today, the company, under the leadership of President and CEO Peter Smith, is a broad-based provider of IT and engineering services and solutions to government customers in support of national priority programs and has grown to include more than 1,400 employees and annual revenue in excess of $375 million. Smith first joined AMERICAN SYSTEMS 40 years ago to work on the TRIDENT submarine program.
From its early years supporting the U.S. Navy, the company has expanded its strategic business areas to include virtually every federal agency in the areas of Defense, Intelligence, Federal Law Enforcement, U.S. Outreach, and Healthcare. The company now supports several hundred programs globally, with a diverse workforce at 30 locations in the U.S. and in 15 countries overseas.
“For four-and-a-half decades, AMERICAN SYSTEMS has focused on delivering services and solutions that exceed our customers’ expectations in a cost-efficient manner while building a culture that rewards accountability and promotes growth in our workforce,” said Smith. “As we move forward, we expect to build on that legacy with our customers and employees. We adopted the tagline “Forty-five and thriving” in connection with our anniversary, as we are enjoying our strongest years of growth and, consequently, our highest shareholder value.”
In 1990, AMERICAN SYSTEMS established an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). AMERICAN SYSTEMS is now one of the largest 100% employee-owned ESOP companies in the U.S. and will be celebrating its 30th anniversary as an employee-owned company during National Employee Ownership Month in October of this year.
Twice named a Government Contractor of the year, AMERICAN SYSTEMS is nationally recognized as a veteran-friendly company and a Virginia Values Veterans (V3) company. The U.S. Department of Labor recently awarded the company the 2019 HIRE Vets Gold Medallion which recognizes employer efforts to recruit, employ, and retain veterans.
AMERICAN SYSTEMS Wins Position on $427 Million U.S. Air Force Mission Support Contract
AMERICAN SYSTEMS has won a spot on a multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract to perform enhancements, modifications, integration, testing, demonstrations, deployments, maintenance and research and development of Global Application Research, Development, Engineering and Maintenance (GARDEM) software baselines.
AMERICAN SYSTEMS Earns Spot on 2020 Military Friendly® Employers List
AMERICAN SYSTEMS Achieves Major Milestone in U.S. Air Force Emergency Mass Notification System Development
June 18, 2019 — Chantilly, VA — AMERICAN SYSTEMS today announced that it recently achieved a major milestone with the successful system acceptance of the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Emergency enterprise-wide Mass Notification System (EMNS). The EMNS is designed to provide a single, cloud-based system to send alerts to warn 100% of assigned forces quickly and effectively of an emergent event.
AMERICAN SYSTEMS Enters Into Partnership With University of Texas at San Antonio College of Business as Inaugural Cyber Team Sponsor
June 11, 2019 — Chantilly, VA — AMERICAN SYSTEMS, a leading government engineering, IT, and training solutions provider, recently partnered with the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) College of Business as the Inaugural Platinum Sponsor for the UTSA Cyber Team Sponsorship Program. The sponsorship for the 2019-2020 academic year, will support the logistics requirements for UTSA students to enable them to travel and compete in cyber competitions around the nation, including the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition.
In 2014, UTSA was named the No. 1 Cyber Security program in the nation by the Ponemon Institute (a leading independent data protection research organization), and has three Center of Academic Excellence designations in information assurance/cyber defense education, information assurance research, and cyber operations from the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.
“We are so pleased to be affiliated with one of the leading cyber security programs in academia,” said Peter Smith, President and CEO of AMERICAN SYSTEMS. “We are proud to help shape tomorrow’s leaders in this critical field—we know what’s at stake.”
“Our vision in the UTSA College of Business, as well as in the Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security, is to transform our students from the curious and hopeful into confident and career-ready young professionals,” added Gerry Sanders, Dean and Bodenstedt Chair of the UTSA College of Business. “Our students’ educational experience has been enhanced thanks to the support of friends like you, who have provided financial contributions so that we may offer exceptional programs and professional development opportunities as they prepare to follow their career aspirations in the cyber security and data analytics fields.”
In addition to being the Inaugural Platinum Sponsor of the UTSA Cyber Security Program, AMERICAN SYSTEMS also sits on the University’s Cyber and Analytics Board of Advisors.
